FEATURES

Book Review – The Golden Garuda & Always Present

The lives of many of the great lamas who followed the Dalai Lama into exile in 1959 are well documented. Much less is known about those who stayed behind in Chinese-occupied Tibet

How I Met Chögyal Namkhai Norbu

How I Met Chögyal Namkhai Norbu

I wish I could say that I connected with teaching for that reason though, that I met Rinpoche because I was looking for truth, because I was trying to find myself, because I wanted to be a better person. However, that view, somewhat opportunistic, is only partially true. The real reason why I met Rinpoche is because I wanted to leave suffering behind.

Our Dzogchen Community

Our Dzogchen Community

Living knowledge and the transmission of Dzogchen, our own primordial state, cannot be defined or confined by the logical categories of rational thought. It is simply beyond space and time.

Drawn and Written in Stone

Drawn and Written in Stone

Review of ‘Drawn and Written in Stone’ by John Vincent Bellezza, a famous archaeologist and historian specialized in the pre-Buddhist heritage of Tibet and author of many books and numerous articles on the ancient history of the Tibetan plateau.

Forty Years of Merigar

Forty Years of Merigar

2021 marks a symbolic moment in the life of Merigar. In fact, forty years have passed since the ‘Podere Nuovo’ farmhouse and land was bought and began to develop as the first center of the International Dzogchen Community.